...few favoured and golden ages of the world to conceive and to express pure beauty of form. Such was the end of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century. How were it possible here to give the faintest outline of the entire devotion to art, of the fervid...

...herds of domesticated llamas in the mountainous parts of The age of the Conquista, which comprises the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, indicates a remarkable concurrence of great events in the political and social life of the nations...

...blamed for its existence2. Several divines of the Belgio Church had demurred at these doctrines ; and at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Jacob Van Harmin, commonly known as Arminius, a pastor of Amsterdam, broached the sentiments generally...

...considerable degree of liberty; but when these republics were reduced into provinces of Moscow (at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century), a severe persecution compelled them to seek shelter in the Swedish and Polish dominions, and it seems...

...who then took port in public affairs, we cannot wonder any more than in the case of the Italians at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, if they utter the most fearful falsehoods against one another with the most reckless impudence. If...

...remains for me? " Better Faith than Récompense." Rcscnde's Cancionero is chiefly confined to poets of the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century ; and displays the names of seventy-live principal writers; but if wo reckon with them those who have...

...fourteenth centuries. Hence their works appear hard and flat. It reached its highest point towards the end of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century. At the head of the masters of chiaroscuro stands Correggio. M. Angelo, great in everything that he...

...remains for me ? " BetUr Faith than Recompense." Resende's Cancionero is chiefly confined to poets of the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century ; and displays the names of seventy-five principal writers; but if we reckon with them those who have...

...extraordinary perfection which the French school of miniature-painting, properly so called, had attained at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. This is a copy of the Roman de la Rose, begun in the thirteenth century by Guillaume de Lorris, and...

...foretelling the ruin of Italy, show how much the Italians were agitated by the threatening state of Europe about the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Some at least of these poems, which seem quite unknown and unpublished, deserve attention as being...